Guide for buyers living in Israel

Buying property abroad from Israel

Rules last checked 30 October 2026 · 3 official sources · Education, not financial, tax, legal or immigration advice.

What a buyer living in Israel meets before and after buying a home abroad: sending the money out, tax at home on the rent and the sale, and the forms to file.

The three things to know

Sending money abroad: Under the banking order each bank transfer from Israel to abroad carries the customer's name, account number and address. This guide does not state a verified answer on any limit for residents yet.
Tax at home: A Tax Authority trustee form lists rent from an overseas rental at 15 percent under section 122A of the Income Tax Ordinance. This guide does not state a verified answer for gains or foreign tax relief yet.
Reporting at home: New immigrants and returning residents may be exempt from reporting foreign source income and assets for 10 years, according to the Ministry of Aliyah guide. The reporting forms for other residents could not be confirmed.

Sending money abroad

A report

Rule: A banking corporation records the name, account number and address of the customer, and where possible the initiator and recipient details, on each SWIFT transfer from Israel to abroad.

For buying a home abroad

Rule: The sources read do not treat the purpose of buying a home abroad differently from any other purpose.

Tax at home

Rent from a home abroad

Rule: A Tax Authority form for trustees lists rental income from overseas rental under section 122A of the Income Tax Ordinance at a 15 percent tax rate.

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Reporting at home

Reporting of foreign source income and assets (new immigrant and returning resident exemption)

Who: New immigrants, immigrant citizens, returning minors and returning residents
Threshold: none stated
Deadline: exempt for a period of 10 years
Covers a foreign home: Yes

Where to look

Choose a country to see what its rules say for a buyer with a Israel passport living in Israel.

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Australia

Depends on the property

Passport: Israel. Buyer lives outside Australia. Reading for a home.

Different property types carry different readings. The country guide lists each one.

Australia requires a foreign person to obtain foreign investment approval before buying residential land, and from 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2029 buying an established dwelling is generally banned, while vacant land and new dwellings stay open with approval. Australian citizens, permanent residents and eligible New Zealand citizens are not caught.

Read the Australia guide

Rules last checked 29 October 2026

Questions people ask

What if an Israeli resident rents out a flat in another country?

A Tax Authority form lists rental income from overseas rental under section 122A of the Income Tax Ordinance at 15 percent. Other treatment of the same rent, and any credit for foreign tax, could not be confirmed from a readable official source.

How does a bank handle a transfer abroad to pay for a home?

The banking order requires the bank to record the name, account number and address of the customer on each SWIFT transfer from Israel to abroad, along with initiator and recipient details where possible.

What if the buyer is a returning resident?

The Ministry of Aliyah guide states that returning residents and new immigrants may be exempt from income tax and from reporting on income and assets from a foreign source for 10 years.

How does Israel treat a home abroad that is the owner's main home?

This guide does not state a verified answer here yet, because the Land Taxation Law text could not be read.

What if Israel limits money sent abroad by residents?

This guide does not state a verified answer here yet. The only official statement read, a Bank of Israel paper from 2005, is too old to rely on for today.

What is still open

These points could not be confirmed from an official source yet, so they are not stated as rules.

Most Israel Tax Authority, Ministry of Finance and Bank of Israel web pages were blocked by a browser check, so only PDF documents could be read.
A current statement that Israel has no limit on residents sending money abroad could not be confirmed; the Bank of Israel paper read is dated 2005.
The tax on a gain from selling a property abroad and the credit for foreign tax could not be confirmed from an official source yet.
The foreign asset reporting threshold for residents and the form used could not be confirmed from an official source yet.
The customs declaration level for cash taken out of Israel could not be confirmed from an official source yet.
Reports of a change ending the reporting exemption for new residents from 1 January 2026 could not be confirmed from an official source yet.

Sources

Official pages these figures come from (3)

See what this does to your own numbers

Add a property abroad next to everything else you own, and see the income and net worth that follow after tax, year by year.

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This is education, not financial, tax, legal or immigration advice. Rules change and depend on the buyer's own facts. Advice from a licensed professional in the country concerned is what settles a particular purchase.